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Senate House Library, University of London

Registers relating to the Netherlands herring fishing industry

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 115

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Registers relating to the Netherlands herring fishing industry

Date(s): 1749

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 35 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The registers were printed in Enkhuisen by Jan von Guissen.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Volume containing two copies of a printed register relating to Netherlands herring fisheries, 1749, entitled Naamlyst der boekhouders, schepen, en stuurluiden van de haring-shepen, in't Yaar 1749, van Enchisen en de Ryp, ter haring-shepen uitgevaren (Jan von Guissen, Enkhuisen, 1749), giving details of the ships, owners and captains of the fleets of Enkhuisen and De Rijp. Added in manuscript are details of the total catch for 1749, and the catch for individual ships on various voyages.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Dutch

System of arrangement:

Single item.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Uncatalogued material may not be seen. Please contact the University Archivist for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Physical characteristics:

Manuscript duodecimo. Bound in vellum cut from an eighteenth century manuscript map of the Indian Ocean.

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Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.